Blue Buffalo Tastefuls Natural Dry Cat Food, Chicken Recipe

When I first started feeding Blue my 5 indoor only cats were dining on Purina Cat Chow, which was at most times all I could afford for them to eat. Then I decided to try Blue and a 15 lb bag of dry kibble lasted a whole month for my boys, which is great. At first I noticed that some were having some stomach upset and a couple would throw up after eating and then as each month went by the one throwing up did it more frequently after eating. I’m not sure why he was throwing up after eating this food but he didn’t do it when all I fed was Cat Chow.
It took my cats about 3 months of eating Blue for their coats to start becoming very soft, shiny and the poops in the litter box to be less and slightly less smelly. The kibble is small and almost all my cats would rather inhale the food than chew it. I’ve tried the Turkey, Chicken and Multi cat formulas and noticed that the Multi Cat formula caused the most stomach upset among all 5.
The ingredient list is decent for the price of this cat food and I do notice each month the price either goes up a few dollars or back down to a more reasonable price, but then right back up again. I’ve done some research on Blue and saw the recalls, also them being sued by Purina for not disclosing their full ingredient list on the packages of cat/dog foods, or should I say lying about what is really in their pet foods.
That right there concerns me because I’ve lost a canary and hamster years back from a pet food brand that should have been recalled but wasn’t and the food was all manufactured in a place where pesticides are also being manufactured. This wasn’t a cheap brand either and I was able to buy one for hamsters and another bird seed for canaries. Within 2 weeks of each other my hamster and canary died.
Since then I am more cautious of what foods I buy for my cats and other fur babies. Blue was a choice I made at the time thinking it was safe and also knowing there had been recalls. Finding out that Blue hides ingredients and lies about what really is inside their pet foods is disturbing.

I like that my cats all have shiny coats, lots more energy and seem happy enough eating Blue but after this last bag and seeing my poor cat throw up almost every day right after eating (TMI I know, it was all undigested cat food, nothing else) I feel bad and want my boys to at least have a cat food that won’t make them so sick. Even if it means going back to Cat Chow which I am against, I want my cats to be happy.
Needless to say we won’t be coming back for more Blue

No complaints from a handful of cats fed exclusively this food, and a couple may need to go on a diet because they like it too much. I trust the quality of ingredients in this food and all of my cats seem healthy with shiny fur and plenty of energy!

I have been feeding Blue Buffalo almost exclusively for about eight years now, and couldn’t be happier. Prior to switching to Blue, one of my cats, who was twelve then, was losing fur to a point where she was bald nearly everywhere that she could reach, as she was licking and chewing constantly. She looked like she had mange, except I don’t think that cats get mange. I took her to a couple of veterinarians. One insisted that she was overly sensitive to fleas, although we weren’t finding any fleas. That didn’t make sense to me since I had inspected her carefully and I knew that, with five cats, if one of them had fleas, they’d all have fleas. Another vet put her on steroids, which seemed to help some, except that it changed her personality, and that wasn’t something I was willing to leave her on for life. Then someone mentioned food allergies, particularly to corn, soy and wheat. Not knowing any better, I had been feeding Science Diet, which was recommended by the veterinarian.

I looked for something without corn, soy and wheat. At first, I tried some other premium food, and her fur started to grow back. I tried a few different premium foods, always making sure that they did not include corn, soy or wheat. Some my cats liked better than others, but I didn’t find any that all of my cats liked. Learning more about feline nutrition, I began looking at what the foods did have in them, as well as what they did not have.

When I came across Blue Buffalo, the idea of the Life Source Bits made sense to me. We began feeding Blue to our cats and all of them loved it. My wife came across one of the Blue representatives in a Petco store, and she and I both ended up working for Blue for a few years, both in Maine and in North Carolina. It was nice to be able to represent a product that I believed in entirely. I no longer work for Blue, but I continue to feed Blue Buffalo to my cats. The only kibble that they eat is made by Blue Buffalo, and about fifty percent of their canned food is also made by Blue.

Three of my cats are twenty-one now, and a fourth is ten years old. The fifth died of cancer when she was a few months short of twenty-four years old. Given the age of my three older cats, I am a little more concerned about their hydration now than before, so I feed them more canned food than I would if they were younger. They appreciate variety in their canned food so I mix some other brands of premium canned food whose ingredients I approve of. Even with the canned food, however, all of my cats like the Blue Buffalo selections, and at least one of my cats will turn away from nearly every other brand that I have tried, the exception being Petco’s premium house brand, Soulistic, which has good ingredients and all of my cats like it.

I rarely feed them kibble other than Blue. Although I alternate between the Blue Buffalo kibble selections from time to time, my cats never tire of Blue Buffalo, and I wouldn’t want to be without the good results that I have seen from it.

All three of my twenty-one year old cats are healthy and active. Veterinarians who haven’t seen them before invariably guess their ages as being a third to a fourth of what their ages really are. One of them has arthritis but you’d never know it as long as she’s taking her supplement – another reason for feeding them canned food each day, since I can hide the supplement in the canned food. Other than that, they have no issues whatsoever. They play, they fight, and they climb. Being cats, of course they also sleep a lot.

Their fur is beautiful, even the one who was once bald. Here’s another huge plus, one that I wasn’t allowed to talk about while I was representing Blue Buffalo. Although my cats are allowed to go outside whenever they want to (in Maine, it’s not as if they’re playing in the street), I have not had a problem with fleas since I began feeding them Blue Buffalo. This has been true even in summers when neighbors are complaining about fleas being a particular problem. If they are outside in the summer, I take sensible precautions and comb them out frequently, particularly if I see one of them scratching, but I haven’t seen more than three fleas in eight years. My cats are not treated with poisons, either. Blue Buffalo is not a remedy for fleas, but good nutrition assists the cat’s natural defenses, I believe.

One thing that many people are concerned about when considering Blue Buffalo or another premium brand of cat food is the price. Yes, you will pay more per pound for Blue Buffalo than you would for a store brand. When you look beyond that, you will see the cost savings, however.

Cats don’t digest corn, soy or wheat very well. When you feed a cheaper cat food (and even some of the more expensive brands) that consists mostly of stuff they can’t digest, much of what you are paying for ends up in the litter box. I can assure you that my litter boxes don’t fill nearly as quickly now, as they did when I was feeding Science Diet to my cats, and what is in there doesn’t smell as bad. The last time I checked, Science Diet was even more expensive than Blue Buffalo. Whatever you are feeding your cats, if the chief ingredients are corn, soy, wheat, or something else that isn’t meat, poultry or fish, you might consider that you are feeding the litter box, so you should add in the extra cost of cat litter.

I don’t know how many people I have come across who talk about their cats, half the age of my own, as being old. Many people are paying high veterinary bills for health problems that may not be necessary if they were eating a healthier diet. With three twenty-one year old cats and one ten year old, my cats see the veterinarian rarely, and only for preventative checkups. Even the one with arthritis is successfully treated with Cosequin, an over the counter supplement that I buy here on Amazon.com.

I won’t go so far as to say that Blue Buffalo is the only cat food that you should feed to your cat. In canned foods, there are several other good choices, some of which I buy as treats for those of my cats who like them. There are other dry cat foods that use real meat as the first ingredient, and which avoid corn, soy and wheat. My cats prefer Blue, and I think there is something to be said for the Life Source Bits that are found only in Blue.

That’s my opinion, and I’m sticking to it.

The product is great but Amazon delivered my cat food and it wasn’t in a box so while it sat outside the squirrels got to it and tore a hole in the side and ate some of the cat food.

Great value